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My family deserved better! Toxins!! Ugh! | Verna Smoker
My family deserved better!  Toxins!! Ugh!



                                    My people, my family living the best healthy life style 



Why I chose health and a chemical free lifestyle for me and my family…

  1. I don’t want to get sick. Who does? I want to be a healthy, active grandma. I’ll do whatever I can to minimize my risk of getting cancer, having a stroke or heart attack, or suffering an autoimmune disease.
  2. I want to have enough energy to do what I need to do each day. 
     
    Everything I do takes energy from cooking healthy meals, to being a wife and mom, to getting outside and playing with my grandkids. The diet and lifestyle choices I make...directly affect my energy.
  3.  I want to feel good.  When I feel good I’m a better mom, a better wife, and a happier person. I want my body to be strong, able, and fit.


I started this new life style in 2014. 

 Why all of a sudden was this important to me?

         It’s because ...  ONE DAY A LIGHT BULB CAME ON! 

         I finally started to connect the dots. 


After my Mom passed away due to Breast Cancer and... 6 years later my dad passed away due to bladder cancer... It got me thinking.


It got me thinking how my immune system may have been compromised while pregnant with our 2nd child who was born with a birth defect. Really? Could there really be something to that?


And then I ask myself...What caused my husband at the age of 61 to have a heart attack?


These are all questions I think about and I wonder if there were toxic chemicals that could have been avoided or... the hundreds of chemicals I was exposed to and put on my body each day or ... could it have been the many toxic cleaning products I used and most times had to covered my face with a towel so as not to breath in the chemical smell that literally made me feel like I was passing out. 


Looking back now I shudder to think how I was so naive and unaware of what I was really doing to not  just me, but also compromising my families health.


So the day that light Bulb came on was the best day ever! That is the day, with my husbands encouragement, I took a few wash baskets full of toxic products that were literally in every room in our home and I chucked them!!!  I did!!  I threw away hundreds of dollars worth of products and ... I made that first step to living a toxic free lifestyle, the best that I know how. 


That included checking labels on all the stuff I put in my grocery cart. Talk about time consuming ! Yes! but ... so worth it!


After doing a ton of research I decided to start my new life style journey with "Young Living"


So why Young Living you might ask?

I had heard that Essential Oils had many health properties and I thought I would try them.


With so many essential oil companies to choose from, which essential oil company is the best? After doing research I chose Young Living as my essential oil company for my family’s health. And here is why… 



                    My sister and I at the Young Living farm in Utah 



 Who is Young Living?


As the world leader in essential oils, we believe that everyone deserves a life full of abundance and wellness. Our vision is to bring the life-changing benefits of essential oils to every home, family, and lifestyle.


Not all oils are created equal. In fact, most of the oils on the market are synthetic, especially if they’re cheap. I know first hand that many oil companies try to stretch their oils and use fillers to do just that. Yucky fillers! Please beware. You get what you pay for.


Young Living oils are so pure, they’ve even developed their own purity standard called the Young Living therapeutic-grade standard. They’re marketed as the purest oils on the market, never synthetic or diluted, 100% “Seed To Seal.” check it out here


The YL story started more than 20 years ago with a simple, home-built essential oil distillery. Today, our farms and community span the globe. Because of our proven commitment to provide nature’s best, millions trust us to deliver superior essential oils. 


Young Living is a high quality company that consistently exceeds all of my expectations. I never worry about if they are pure or not. I went to the farm in Utah and when you see how they "plant the seeds to when you put that drop of oil on your skin" it is simply amazing! 


Another reason I choose Young Living is because of the Young Living foundation they are passionate about and ... to know I have a part in this makes my heart glad!  Such a good cause!


Check it out here, ]https://www.youngliving.com/en_US/company/media/partnerships/young-living-foundation


As I share my story with people I meet, it has led to a growing community of friends and has given me the opportunity of an unexpected successful business venture. I love to help people and there is nothing more fulfilling then that. I love what I do! 

 

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  1. So glad I switched. Changed my life.

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Meet Verna Smoker

 

The moment we heard the doctor say…


“ITS A BOY”


My husband and I were over the top excited with the birth of our second child.


Those words were music to our ears, UNTIL the music was drowned out by, “Your baby boy has a birth defect, your son is born with spina bifida”. The next few days were a blur of emotions. I was scared, really scared.


I was 22 years old. We were young parents. This was not suppose to happen!


We were told that our baby would need a shunt placed in the ventricles of his brain to relieve the pressure of the spinal fluid on his brain, better known as, hydrocephalus. This was all so foreign and terrifying. Surgery after surgery became our baby’s life.


FEAR, SADNESS, ANGER, DISAPPOINTMENT, GUILT and BLAME on MYSELF became part of my world. Would our baby boy have brain damage? Would he walk? Let alone…live?

Surgeries and long hospital stays all took a toll on my emotional well being.


Instead of being raw and vulnerable with my feelings, I buried them. I was “Super Mom” (or at least that’s what I thought). I learned to wear a mask and I was good at it. I looked the part and I acted the part because I was “Super Mom”. 


However, I pushed my feelings down DEEPI pretended they were not there. This way I DID NOT NEED TO FEEL so deeply. It took awhile to notice, years to be exact, but I was slowly losing control of my emotions. My stress was going through the roof. Panic attacks and depression became real in my life.


Years passed.... 


At the age of 23, our son developed a brain infection which caused him to have colonic status seizures (you know, the kind that do not stop except through medicinal interventions). TERRIFYING to watch!

To top it all off, my husband survived a heart attack (thankfully he is doing well), my mom died of breast cancer, and a few years later my dad died of bladder cancer.


All of this added even MORE STRESS and WORRY.


By Gods grace, and because of our deep faith in HIM, we have and continue to weather the storms. 


Because of the RESEARCH I've done, today, WE DO LIFE differently. We’ve discovered ways to implement and make changes that support our IMMUNE SYSTEMS as well as our EMOTIONAL and BRAIN health. We’ve made changes in the amount of TOXINS that we surround ourselves with. We have become more aware of how “toxic exposure” has an affect on the internal structure of our brain and can trigger both short and long term effects. 


I’ve also found ways to manage my stress level. Those terrifying panic attacks no longer torment me. We have  found the tools we need to live our BEST LIFE, and for that, I am grateful. 


It's our life, and though there are parts of it that we continue to look for solutions in, we will continue to move forward. 


LIFE IS A JOURNEY, and it is BEAUTIFUL. 


If any part of my story connects with your own story I would love to chat and connect with you.



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